Charles Dickens Quotes

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Only men of character are trusted.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Rajkumar Hirani is a gem of a person. You can trust him completely.

I am not a cheater.

I judge my friends by their character.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.